[libre-riscv-dev] gitlab-ci-archiver status

Jacob Lifshay programmerjake at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 21:31:08 BST 2020


On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 13:25 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:03 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It also needs code to send out the build failure emails, or that could be
> > done by a shell script by parsing all the new commits -- so an hour of
> work
> > in either bash or Rust
>
> the general UNIX philosohpy is that one program do one task and do it
> well.  therefore farm that task to an external program.
>

Ok, though both of calling out to sendmail with all the correct parameters
or writing an external script to parse the commits and then call sendmail
are likely to require much more code than just calling a library like
lettre.at even with the additional code for reading the config options from
the config file.

Jacob


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